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IF YOU PLAN TO WATCH LAST NIGHT’S ER….

Then skip this post! No, I mean it! Read this post after you’ve watched it. Fine, keep reading, just don’t send me your pissed off comments when the episode is all spoiled for you.

Do y’all remember the movie “Hook?” Spielberg, Dustin Hoffman, Mork? OK, well for those of you who don’t –it was an early nineties Peter Pan movie imagining what would happen if Peter Pan grew up and left Neverland. (Basically, Captain Hook gets lonely without his nemesis and then sends goons to kidnap Peter’s kids.) Anyway, one the recurring themes is that Peter Pan had this fight with Captain Hook where Hook was thrown into the water and a Crocodile bit off his hand (and then it swallowed a clock or something, that part I didn’t get).
Anyway, Hook’s totally afraid of this crocodile coming back for the rest him, I assume because the hand tasted so good. He then has the crocodile killed and stuffed, to make sure that it can’t eat anymore of him.
Of course, at the end, through some calamitous twist of fate, the stuffed crocodile, it shaken loose and falls (mouth open, teeth baring) right onto Captain Hook’s surprised body. The jaws snap shut and Hook is swallowed hole. The stuffed croc then burps in satisfaction….

Well, ladies and gentlemen, in last night’s ER, the role of the good Captain was played by none other than the grumpy Dr. Romano, while stepping into the role of the crocodile: a crashing helicopter, come to finish the job of its hand chopping comrade in aviation.
Truly bizarre.
R.I.P. Dr. Romano…
Actually, given the circumstances of his demise and mutiliation, he’s probably had enough of ripping…

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